...when you've nearly exhausted your favorite albums. For example, I love Blood On The Tracks (it's my favorite album), but I found myself listening almost solely to that for a long, long time. I still love it, but I don't want to burn myself out on it. So I've been making an attempt to just not listen to it, so it can feel special again. Thankfully it's been done before, but I was wondering what other people's favorite Dylan albums are and what they listen to if they ever feel like they've been spinning a certain album for too long. Lately it's been:

-New Skin for the Old Ceremony -Death of a Ladies Man (my last thread made me look at the album more closely, and I like it more than a thought I would)- Astral Weeks- Kind of Blue- Bitches Brew- Street-Legal, still peppering a little Dylan for good measure

-Death of a Ladies Man (my last thread made me look at the album more closely, and I like it more than a thought I would)

I haven't listened in 20 years but it's still there on my shelf, waiting for me. That thread brought it to mind, but I haven't listened yet.

I'm sad about it, but albums like Blonde on Blonde, Blood on the Tracks, Love and Theft, etc. will never again move me like they once did. I've listened to all of them hundreds of times. I don't regret it, though. Not much to be gained by saving it.

...when you've nearly exhausted your favorite albums. For example, I love Blood On The Tracks (it's my favorite album), but I found myself listening almost solely to that for a long, long time. I still love it, but I don't want to burn myself out on it. So I've been making an attempt to just not listen to it, so it can feel special again. Thankfully it's been done before, but I was wondering what other people's favorite Dylan albums are and what they listen to if they ever feel like they've been spinning a certain album for too long. Lately it's been:

-New Skin for the Old Ceremony -Death of a Ladies Man (my last thread made me look at the album more closely, and I like it more than a thought I would)- Astral Weeks- Kind of Blue- Bitches Brew- Street-Legal, still peppering a little Dylan for good measure

Any albums anyone else has been putting on to change the pace a bit?

I usually safe 'kind of blue' for when driving through thunder storms...

-Death of a Ladies Man (my last thread made me look at the album more closely, and I like it more than a thought I would)

I haven't listened in 20 years but it's still there on my shelf, waiting for me. That thread brought it to mind, but I haven't listened yet.

I'm sad about it, but albums like Blonde on Blonde, Blood on the Tracks, Love and Theft, etc. will never again move me like they once did. I've listened to all of them hundreds of times. I don't regret it, though. Not much to be gained by saving it.

I put Love and Theft away for a few years, came back to it recently and really enjoyed it. Blonde on Blonde, as blasphemous as it may be, is not entirely my bag. I listen to Visions of Johanna and Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands but I don't spin that often. I like listening to it in with other people, oddly enough. I once didn't listen to Blood On The Tracks for about a year or two and put it on after a stormy fall day and was pulled in again. I can talk about the album whenever, but just because I want to listen to more of his work/ other artists I feel the need to shelve it. It'll be back, though. The lyrics and music are addicting enough, but I absolutely love his singing on that record and will put it on in the future.

Death of a Ladies Man is growing on me, albeit very slowly. I still question some decisions that were made but I can listen to it. His first album might make it into rotation this coming weekend!

Also, "Lisa" that sounds like a good idea! Sorry I didn't quote you, but that sounds like perfect weather for that album, especially All Blues.

When I don’t feel my gut tugging me towards any particular Bob album I’ll sometimes play either Biograph or Telltale Signs. More often then not, something I hear will rekindle my interest in one album or another. Lately though it has mostly been Leonard Cohen (a lot of Dear Heather and Ten New Songs, but any of his albums are fair game right now) or Sufjan Stevens’ (Carrie and Lowell or Age of Adz). Actually, besides some Christmas music for a couple days in December and Joshua Tree on my way to see U2, I’m not sure I’ve intentionally listened to anything other than Bob, Leonard, and Sufjan for months, haha. I’ve tried, but haven’t found anything else as beneficial to my daily survival (to put it as Leonard did when asked about what he listens to) as these.

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